More from LA’s incompetent government: You may recall that the Los Angeles county-run hospital was killing patients. After four years of fighting incurable bureaucracy, the feds insisted the hospital be put down.

Meanwhile, the LA school district, the one that built a high school atop a toxic site that will end up costing $400 million, can’t even pay its employees:

Seven months after Los Angeles Unified rolled out a $95 million computerized payroll system, school officials are prepared to pour at least another $37 million into the project to fix thousands of problems as they brace for the start of the school year.

But even as workers frantically try to resolve software glitches that have left thousands of employees underpaid or overpaid, district officials say solutions are still months away.

…David Holmquist, LAUSD’s interim chief operating officer, says the main problems now in the payroll system are for about 49,000 certificated teachers and principals. On Aug. 3, the last certificated pay date, nearly 4,000 had errors.

Well, that’s about 92% correct, which counts as an A, right?

Now, what’s with this “certificated”? The verb is “certify.” One who is certified receives a certificate. There’s no need to turn a noun into a verb.

Surgeons are “board certified,” not board certificated.

One expects educators to respect language, but I guess doing so is brain surgery to them.